Jiří Menzel Movies

A passionate communist worker is discouraged by the changing political climate and the failure of his peers to live up to his ideals.

In her first feature, Věra Chytilová uses a combination of documentary and fiction film techniques to tell two stories in counterpoint....

The theft of a pearl necklace and subsequent murder took place at the Tartaros cabaret. All this could compromise the minister, who is an admirer of...

The series of children's films about Detective Martin, who intervenes in cases involving children, begins with this film. It consists of two short...

After many years, Anka Lomnická, a former countess and emigrant, arrives in Prague. By chance, she finds herself seated next to two characters...

A parable for the end of totalitarianism. Three protagonists - a high official, a secretary, and a border guard - representative of three...

The aging police commissioner, who has a twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Olga, is disturbed at his sixtieth birthday party by the news from the...

When he was five years old, Ivan Hum was kidnapped and was forced to spend his formative years in orphanages, prisons and other institutions all...

The young Marta has made a break in her medical education to fully invest in her career as a model. We follow her for a day in her life, almost...

This film is a documentary-style look at the life of the beloved Czech actor, Zdeněk Svěrák.

Sarcastic comedy about the Czechoslovakia of the seventies. A young gynaecologist can't figure out whether to get serious with a young nurse or to...

Documentary about the film academy in Prague and the Czech Film in 1965.

How to marry off two daughters and a maid, especially when the father has no idea that it's high time? Father Ubaldo has worries; his two daughters...

A gifted poet checks into a Gothic hotel in hopes of meeting the woman with whom he has long been enamored. He is surrounded by a variety of offbeat...

"A man is immortal as long as he lives in the memory of others,” said well-known Czech writer Arnošt Lustig with a wry smile. In...

Kateřina works at an inn run by her evil stepmother. One day, she meets a young man she doesn't know in the forest. He is Prince Jan, and he is...

Story of an extraordinary musician, violinist, who was famous, but his alcoholism led him to poverty. Now he is playing time from time to rich...

Little kids, little worries, big kids, big worries, sighs many a parent often. This is no different for the mother of eighteen-year-old Frantisek,...

Jiří Suchý recalls two of the most prominent artistic and creative figures in Czechoslovak culture of the last century:...